Just saw the Rock the Casbah video for the first time and it’s… really literal in that second-generation music video way where...
Just saw the Rock the Casbah video for the first time and it’s… really literal in that second-generation music video way where they’re like “we need something more than just a filmed stage performance, let’s act out the lyrical themes in the most obvious way”
Like it’s an Arab sheikh and a Hasidic Jew driving a convertible around Texas, going to the gas station and dancing their way to the concert, intercut with the band in camo performing the song in front of a nodding donkey, when they get to the “jet fighters” bit they just have footage of like Dassault warplanes cruising around
I like music videos where they painfully act out the lyrics and it’s cringey as fuck, gives me a warm glowy feeling
Oh you’ll like this, it turned out it had been ripped from the 80s Australian overnight music video show “Rage”, which apparently used the same typewriter font as the first Garbage album
(After that the second Garbage album, “Version 2.0”, used a font that evoked Chicago, the system default for the just-then-released Mac OS 8, a visual joke basically no one got)
that doesn’t sound right, didn’t MacOS drop Chicago for version 8?
Ah shit Charcoal, got them mixed up